Expanding access to investigational therapies for HIV infection and AIDS : March 12-13, 1990, conference summary /
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| Author / Creator: | Nichols, Eve K. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 73 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200525 |
| Summary: | The call for a parallel track for AIDS drug development--a proposal that would allow the early distribution of AIDS drugs to large numbers of patients in parallel with the conventional clinical trials that assess the drugs' safety and efficacy--has sparked controversy within the scientific community. Questions have arisen about the risks to patients of such a plan, about its potential effect on the successful completion of standard controlled trials, and about whether the parallel track will generate useful data.<br>Larger questions have also been raised about whether the parallel track heralds fundamental changes in the philosophy underlying drug regulation in the United States, about the costs and financing of investigational therapies and associated medical costs, and about the role of expanded access mechanisms for drugs in reaching those whose health care is generally inadequate. This volume summarizes a conference hosted by the Institute of Medicine that illuminated these issues. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 73 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 058515547X 9780585155470 1280203560 9781280203565 9780309583367 0309583365 0309044901 9780309044905 |